During her short life, Japanese poet and songwriter Misuzu Kaneko (1903-1930) composed as many as 512 poems, including Watashi to Kotori to Suzu to ("Bird, Bell and I"), her masterpiece, and Tairyo ("Big Catch of Fish"). In 2003 the Kaneko Misuzu Memorial Museum was founded in Nagato city, where she was born.

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